61 points edgefield | 2 comments | 04 Jun 23 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

I just shared a post about the world’s oceans setting record temperatures for 80 continuous days. After the post achieved 130+ upvotes and the top spot within several hours, it was nuked. My experience is that every post on Hacker News addressing climate change is removed or downvoted to oblivion. I don’t want to be part of a community that turns away from probably the most important threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Goodbye and farewell!

1. polotics ◴[04 Jun 23 19:12 UTC] No.36188535[source]▶

Climate-change related posts that tell us what we already know, but trigger carpet-bombing by deniers, whether those may be deluded earnest posters with their identity somehow stuck to denial, or russian/oil-industry/whatever shills muddying the waters with posts on adaptation or costs miscalculations as their main angles... ...are indeed tiresome, as I kind of feel the urge to respond, argue, debunk. Is there any other intelligent discussion site that manages this better than HN though?

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2. matthewdgreen ◴[04 Jun 23 19:17 UTC] No.36188579[source]▶

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This post isn't telling us most of us "already know." It's telling us that there's something really unusual going on with ocean temperatures right now, specifically, over the last 80 days. There have been a couple of posts on this before, but the last highly-rated one is over a month ago and so this was an important update. Chart: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

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